14 Tuesday, September 24, 2019 Sports Wales begin with Warm welcome for Qatar goalball champions bonus-point victory over Georgia Qatar’s goalball team was accorded a warm reception on its arrival in Doha on Sunday after winning the gold medal at the 2019 West Asian Para Games in Amman, Jordan. In the final match, Qatar defeated Iraq 9-7. Jassim bin Rashed al Buenain, Secretary-General of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC), Hamad Lahdan al Mohannadi, Director of the QOC Support Services Sector, Khaleel Ibrahim al Jabir, Director of the QOC Sport Affairs Department, Dr. Hassan al Ansari, Secretary-General of the Qatar Paralympic Committee, received the delegation at the Hamad International Airport. Tsonga bags Bairstow dropped fourth Metz ATP title from Test squad AFP AFP The first Test, at Mount METZ (FRANCE) LONDON Maunganui, starts on Novem- ber 21. The series is not in- JO-WILFRIED Tsonga won ENGLAND have dropped cluded in the new World Test the ATP tournament in Metz Jonny Bairstow from their Championship. for the fourth time Sunday fol- Test squad for the tour of New World Cup-winning cap- lowing a 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/4), Zealand, with paceman James tain Eoin Morgan will captain 6-3 victory over Slovenia’s Al- Anderson unavailable for the the Twenty20 team, with the jaz Bedene. two-match series due to a calf five-match series starting on The 34-year-old Frenchman injury. November 1. added to his wins in 2011, 2012 Four uncapped players will and 2015 in Metz by claiming be on the plane -- Warwickshire Test squad: Joe Root (capt), Jofra Archer, the 18th title of his career. opener Dominic Sibley, Kent Stuart Broad, Rory Burns, Jos Buttler, Zak Wales’ wing George North scores a try during the Japan 2019 Rugby World Cup Pool D match against Georgia at the City of Toyota Stadium in Tsonga finished 2018batsman Zak Crawley and Lan- Crawley, Sam Curran, Joe Denly, Jack Leach, Toyota City, Japan, on Monday. (AFP) ranked outside the top 200 cashire pair Saqib Mahmood Saqib Mahmood, Matthew Parkinson, Ollie after a year lost to injuries but and Matt Parkinson. Pope, Dominic Sibley, Ben Stokes, Chris AFP a few nice tries and we’re happy crowd at a sultry City of Toyota their own driving maul, but will climb back into the world’s Batsman Jason Roy, who Woakes TOYota CITY (JAPAN) with the bonus point.” Stadium scenting a rout. fresh-on-the-field Jaba Breg- top 50 on Monday. starred in England’s World Twenty20 squad: Eoin Morgan (capt), Jonny There were barely two min- vadze manipulated it to a jud- “I’m proud to have come Cup triumph, is another name Bairstow, Tom Banton, Sam Billings, Pat SIX Nations champions Wales utes on the clock when centre Out of the box dering halt, his dark art spotted back. It’s not always easy to missing from the 15-strong Brown, Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Joe Denly, opened their Rugby World Davies was played in under the The sole bright spark for by referee Luke Pearce who had return after significant inju- Test squad after a difficult Lewis Gregory, Chris Jordan, Saqib Mahmood, Cup campaign with a bonus- posts after a rocket of a pass Georgia in a grim first-half no option but to yellow card to ries that need an operation,” Ashes series, which ended 2-2 Dawid Malan, Matt Parkinson, Adil Rashid, point 43-14 victory over Geor- by scrum-half and namesake display saw a rare break into the replacement hooker. said Tsonga. last week. James Vince gia in Toyota City on Monday. Gareth, decoys Dan Biggar and Welsh territory by hooker A raft of replacements dis- The victory not only sent Hadleigh Parkes bamboozling Shalva Mamukashvili, Gareth rupted the flow of the game, out a signal of intent to main a leaden-footed defence. Davies twice on hand with tap- enabling Georgia to weather Pool D rivals Australia, who Biggar’s conversion sur- downs to halt the foray. the 10-minute sin-binning beat Fiji in their opener, but prisingly came back off the Skipper Alun Wyn Jones, without conceding any points. Sheikh Fahad records 12th straight win also dispelled any doubts there posts, but the fly-half redeemed matching Gethin Jenkins’ re- Despite their far more might have been of a hango- himself with a penalty shortly cord of 129 Wales caps, and No combative half, it was re- Qatari boxer Sheikh Fahad bin ver in the Welsh camp over afterwards. 8 Josh Navidi were at the heart placement scrum-half Tomos Khalid al Thani (right) after post- the sending-home of assistant Another well-drilled mid- of the effective Welsh rush de- Williams who chased down ing his 12th straight professional coach Rob Howley amid alle- field move saw winger Ad- fence to nullify the threat from a George North grubber for career win against Romania’s gations of illegal betting. ams split the defence before the ‘Lelos’. Wales’ fifth. Ionut Bogheanu during their bout Four slick first-half tries offloading to Gareth Davies. And it was instead Wales Toulon prop Levan in Madrid, Spain, on Saturday. from Jonathan Davies, Jus- The scrum-half was brought who had the last word of the Chilachava responded Georgia The third-round win was quite tin Tipuric, Josh Adams and down short, but Tipuric was first 40 minutes, Liam Wil- when he bombed over from sweet for the Qatari super welter- Liam Williams ensured the on hand to swoop for the ball liams scooping up Jonathan short range, but Wales had the weight pugilist, who celebrated bonus point for Wales, who and sidestep inside Giorgi Davies’ pass to dot down in last word when North finished his 32nd birthday on Friday. were given a stern examina- Tkhilaishvili to run through the corner, Biggar making no well after some neat footwork Sheikh Fahad made a winning tion by a strong Georgian unmolested for Wales’ second mistake to stretch the score and an offload from Tomos debut against Hungary’s Bela scrum that came to life in the try, Biggar converting. out to 29-0. Williams. Sandor in May 2016. He has seond period. The third came soon after, The Georgians opened the “I think we came out of the since then beaten a string of “It was a good first half for Adams running in from al- second-half exactly as coach box as we went out into the first Romanians — Adrian Parlogea us and we were pretty happy at most halfway after an inside Milton Haig would have liked half but I’m disappointed if I’m (thrice), Gheorghe Ghiompirica half-time,” said Wales coach Biggar pass off a lineout, with them, hooker Mamukashvili honest with the second half,” (twice), Racaru (twice), Bogheanu Warren Gatland. the Georgian defence glar- bundled over from an attack- said Jones. (twice), Dumitru Nicu Manea “A little bit messy in the sec- ingly absent. ing line-out for a well-received “We let a couple of tries in and Sorin. ond half but the ball was quite Biggar hit the extras and try that Tedo Abzhandadze and we didn’t really continue slippery out there and it was it was a point a minute after converted. in a similar vein. It’s a good re- hard to hold on to it. We scored 22 minutes, the 35,545-strong Wales roared back with sult but it’s plenty to work on.” QPL’s Carson Cup Season XI Qatar suffer second loss begins September 27th in a row in Malaysia TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA DOHA SCOREBOARD DENMARK: QATAR (TARGET 259) THE 11th season of Qatar Pre- Qatar’s fortunes in the ICC Jonas Henriksen b Mohammed Nadeem 9 Kamran Khan c Hashmi b Hald 5 Hamid Shah c Patel b Zaheer Ibrahim 93 Saqlain Arshad c Hashmi b Laegsgaard 20 mier League (QPL) cricket World Cup Challenge League Zameer Khan c Hussain b Ahmed 6 Zaheer Ibrahim c Klokker b Jojo 18 tournament titled ‘Carson Cup’ Group A took another blow as Freddie Klokker c Nadeem b Munaweera 80 Qalandar Khan c Lucky Ali b Shah 21 was inaugurated on Saturday in they were beaten by Denmark Oliver Hald c Arshad b Ibrahim 8 Mohammed Rizlan c Hashmi b Delawar Khan 63 attendance of captains of all the in a match by 60 runs in Kuala Jino Jojo run out (Kamran/Qalandar) 9 Dharmang Patel b Shah 0 Anique Uddin run out (Hussain) 5 Khurram Shahzad st Hashmi b Shah 22 20 participating teams. Lumpur, Malaysia. Delawar Khan not out 23 Iqbal Hussain lbw b Laegsgaard 1 Siraj Ansari, founder of Skipper Hamid Shah and ND Laegsgaard lbw b Hussain 0 Gayan Munaweera c Delawar Khan b Hald 23 the league, said that this year Freddie Klokker lifted Den- Abdul Hashmi not out 1 Mohammed Nadeem not out 2 twenty teams of expats from mark to a fighting 258 for eight Extras (b1, lb6, w17) 24 Owais Ahmed b Delawar Khan 0 Total (eigth wickets, 50 Overs, RR: 5.16) 258 Extras (b 1, lb 2, nb 1, w 19) 23 sub-continent countries like in 50 overs with a 151-run Did not bat: Lucky Ali Total (all out, 43.4 Overs, RR: 4.53) 198 India, Pakistan, Bangladesh third-wicket stand. Then Shah, Fall of wickets: 1-33 (Jonas Henriksen, 9.5 ov), 2-57 Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Kamran Khan, 4.1 ov), 2-47 and Sri Lanka are participating with three for 37, shot Qatar (Zameer Khan, 17.4 ov), 3-208 (Hamid Shah, 43.3 ov), (Saqlain Arshad, 6.6 ov), 3-48 (Zaheer Ibrahim, 7.4 ov), and the matches will start from out for 198 to pull off their sec- 4-214 (Freddie Klokker, 44.5 ov), 5-222 (Oliver Hald, 4-105 (Qalandar Khan, 20.3 ov), 5-105 (Dharmang 45.3 ov), 6-230 (Anique Uddin, 46.6 ov), 7-246 (Jino Patel, 20.6 ov), 6-150 (Khurram Shahzad, 33.6 ov), September 27th at Barwa City ond win in four matches.